If two North Korean female agents are responsible for the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, it would be the latest in a long history of planned assassinations and attacks by the secretive state.

The North Korean leader's estranged half-brother was reportedly poisoned in a targeted killing at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on Monday as he waited to catch a flight to Macau.

Experts have pointed to the 45-year-old's love of women and gambling as other plausible motives behind his apparent assassination.

However, Kim Jong-Un has overseen a purge of various "traitors" perceived to be a threat to his regime since he came to power in December 2011.

If it was an ordered hit by the younger sibling on his elder brother, it would not be the first time North Korean operatives have targeted defectors, South Korean leaders or members of the Kim clan.

:: In December 2013, the North Korean leader's uncle was branded a "traitor" and executed by machine gun for "attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods".

Once considered the second most powerful official in the North, General Jang Song-Thaek was believed to have helped Mr Kim consolidate power after the death of his father.


:: Yi Han-Yong, a nephew of Kim Jong-Nam's mother Song Hye-Rim - a South Korean-born actress who is believed to have been a mistress of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il - was shot dead in February 1997 outside his home in Bundang, Seongnam. The two assailants were never caught.

He had been living there since he defected to the South in 1982 and had published a memoir revealing details of the Kims' private lives. That book is believed to have been the trigger for the killing.


:: South Korean diplomat Choi Duk-Keun was bludgeoned to death in Vladivostok, a port city in Russia, in October 1996.

South Korean media reports said he was killed to avenge the deaths of 25 North Korean commandos who died when their vessel ran aground in the South.

:: Korean Air flight 858 was flying from Baghdad to Seoul on 29 November 1987 when it exploded over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board.

The two bombers - a man and woman - were traced to Bahrain where the male agent committed suicide, but the other, Kim Hyon-Hee, was captured and brought to Seoul and confessed the bombing had aimed to hamper the 1988 Seoul Olympics.


:: North Korean undercover agents killed 21 people including four South Korean cabinet ministers in a bomb attack in Rangoon, Myanmar, in October 1983, which was intended to kill then South Korean president Chun Doo-Hwan. However, the device exploded before the president arrived.

Three North Korean agents fled the scene, one was killed and two others were captured by Myanmar authorities.

:: In January 1968 a team of 31 North Korean commandos attempted to assassinate then South Korean president Park Chung-Hee, but were stopped some 100 metres from the presidential Blue House.

A gun battle erupted and more than 90 South Koreans were killed including many civilians on a bus. There was a further failed attempt to kill Mr Park in 1974.

http://news.sky.com/story/north-koreas-long-history-of-assassinations-10769228

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That fat boy is becoming more notorious than his ancestors

Most likely the half-brother of the North Korean leader was assassinated by South Korea and its allies. Kind of weird two women can assassinate someone at busy airport, with all those security guards and cameras around, but no-one has the killers and they just vanished !

panafrican:
Most likely the half-brother of the North Korean leader was assassinated by South Korea and its allies. Kind of weird two women can assassinate someone at busy airport, with all those security guards and cameras around, but no-one has the killers and they just vanished !

I believe they have been apprehended. South Korea and it's allies would not assassinate someone they see as a hope for Change in North Korea. The guy had always advocated for change of the system in North Korea which is why his late dad chose his younger brother ahead of him. And don't forget he doesn't even live in North Korea.

bonechamberlain:
I believe they have been apprehended. South Korea and it's allies would not assassinate someone they see as a hope for Change in North Korea. The guy had always advocated for change of the system in North Korea which is why his late dad chose his younger brother ahead of him. And don't forget he doesn't even live in North Korea.

After people started to question the circumstances of that bizarre assassination, they are now saying they had some people in custody . Why are they asking for the DNA of the victim's brother before allowing North Korea to take the body?

North Korean ambassador to Malaysia in his own words:
Click on the video in this article.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/suspect-north-korea-killing-thought-she-was-taking-part-in-tv-prank-indonesia-siti-aisyah-police-kim-jong-nam

Malaysia immoral attitude.

Pyongyang's state media on Thursday blasted Malaysia for an "illegal and immoral" autopsy on a man believed be the half-brother of North Korea's leader, breaking a 10-day silence on the airport assassination.
"Malaysia is obliged to hand his body to the DPRK (North Korea) side as it made an autopsy and forensic examination of it in an illegal and immoral manner", the North's Korean Jurists Commitee said, in comments carried by KCNA.
Malaysia has not released the corpse "under the absurd pretext" that it needs a DNA sample from the dead man's family.
"This proves that the Malaysian side is going to politicize the transfer of the body in utter disregard of international law and morality and thus attain a sinister purpose", it said.
South Korea said Sunday that Seoul is certain that the dead man is leader Kim Jong-Un's estranged half-brother Kim Jong-Nam, and that Malaysia's investigation shows Pyongyang was behind the assassination.
The North's statement -- its first mention of the death of a North Korean, but one which did not at any point name the dead man -- repeated Pyongyang's demand for a joint investigation, stressing it was ready to dispatch a delegation of its jurists.


http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/23/17/north-korea-rejects-kim-autopsy-says-its-illegal-and-immoral